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It’s not easy being green

Eat ethically (Cover story, April)? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. First we were told to eat organically. Then locally. Now ethically. What happened to low-fatly? Or high-proteinly? Or just plain healthily? How about eating what you can afford? Or what you can get in the middle of winter in Cape Breton?

Gale Mitcham
Black Rock, N.S.

May 30, 2008

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